In this short scene, the narrator explains why he still refuses to give up his unrequited love for Antanas. He says that love can be both happy and cruel, and that his story is one that belongs to him alone. He tells us that his friends once asked him why he continues to refuse his love, and he says that it is because it is "a love story" that belongs only to him. They will never know his feelings and pain, he says, and they will beat him up for it. He wants to go in and clean up the mess, but he refuses to wait outside, saying that he wants to see the "heart-wrenching scene" of the wedding